In this Feb. 22, 2017 photo, a U.S. Coast Guard sailor scans the horizon with his binoculars just outside the bridge of the USCG cutter Stratton as it navigates the eastern Pacific Ocean near the coast of Central America. The Coast Guard set a record in 2016, seizing more than 240 tons of cocaine, but its victories seem doomed to be short-lived. That's because hundreds of miles to the south, in the jungles of Colombia, there's a bumper harvest taking place. And Colombia is virtually the only source of cocaine smuggled by sea in small vessels.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
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